7 Free Keyword Research Tools Listed in This Post - Find Those Niches!

[subhub-mark]

Our own clients at Subhub ask us a lot about keyword research.

Based on this, I thought i'd put together a quick list of 7 free keyword research tools to help you with your IM efforts...

1. Google search-based keyword tool

The Search-based Keyword Tool provides keyword ideas:

* Based on actual Google search queries
* Matched to specific pages of your website with your ad and search share


2. Google AdWords keyword tool

This tool gives you approximate keyword search volume statistics for Google search network and because of Google growing and dominating search network, you really can get pretty precise results.


3. Google Insights for Search

With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, time frames and properties.


4. Google Trends

Compare the search popularity of multiple terms across a defined period of time


5. SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool

* Offers rough suggested daily search volumes by market for Google, Yahoo!, and MSN.
* Links the search volumes to the related global search results.
* Provides links to price estimate tools from Google AdWords. That Google AdWords tool shows the necessary bid to rank #1 for 85% of queries, and roughly how much traffic you could expect AdWords to send you based on that bid price and ad position.
* Links to Google Trends, Google Suggest, Google Synonyms, Yahoo! Suggest, and Keyword Discovery keyword research results.
* Links to various vertical databases like Topix.net, Google Blogsearch, and Del.icio.us to let you know if people are talking about your topic and what types of resources they are referencing.
* Is driven off the Wordtracker keyword suggestion tool. If you sign up for a Wordtracker account they offer many additional keyword research features and tools that are lacking in our basic keyword tool.


6. KGen

KGen (Keyword Generator) is a Firefox extension that allows you to see what keywords are strong on the web page you are visiting.


7. Wordtracker SEO Blogger

SEO Blogger is a Firefox plugin that allows you to find the most sought-after keywords for your subject without ever leaving your blog editing screen. The tool sits alongside whatever blog publishing software you're using so you can do keyword research and optimize your posts as you write. Then, simply hit "Publish" – and you're done!


Hope these help

Feel free to suggest any I've missed. Could turn into a great resource!

Mark

[Chri5123]

Awesome list there Mark,

Thank you very much for these!

There are a couple that I didn't know about - will be picking up that Firefox plugin!

All the best

Chris

[subhub-mark]

My pleasure Chris

[andymurray]

Thanks Mark, great list.

I especially like the SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool. It Rocks!

Andy

[subhub-mark]

Thanks Andy

I love SEO Book - it's well worth checking out the rest of their site, for some invaluable advice and other tools.

[andymurray]

Will do Mark. thanks for the heads-up.

Andy

[John Hamel]

Thanks very much for compiling this list of free keyword Research tools. I always used Google AdWords keyword tool as I am a newbie and I was also not aware of these other services. This list will be a lot helpful for me for my SEO purpose.

[Spencer Haws]

Great list here. There is another great free keyword tool at Keyword Sniper – More Free Software…

This is a VERY professional tool for keyword finding, sorting, competition results, etc. Very useful. I dont know the creator at all, but someone here on the forum pointed me to this one a few weeks ago...just passing on the info!

[azgold]

This is a great k/w resource thread, especially (maybe not) for my profession. Thank-you.

[shirland]

I already use some of these, but the additional ones will be great to make my keyword research even better. Thank you.

[peetred]

Great list! I am going to try the firefox plugins today

[subhub-mark]

Thanks all!

As mentioned, if anyone has any tools I haven't listed that are FREE post them here.

Best wishes,
Mark

[tamal]

Great post.I was not aware of the google tools except that of the adwords.Can you give names of any premium tools for keyword research?